Italian Politician Accused in Chess Cheating Scandal By Glen Levy Jan. 31, 2013 Two years ago, Loris Cereda, then the mayor of a town called Buccinasco near Milan, Italy, was caught on video allegedly taking a €10,000 ($13,570) bribe for...
Italian Mayor banned for chess cheating
Italy’s Corruption Charge Mayor Loris Cereda Banned for Cheating at Chess By Umberto Bacchi January 30, 2013 5:13 PM GMT An Italian politician facing charges of corruption has also been found guilty of cheating at chess and become the...
What constitutes evidence of cheating?
The Crown Game Affair January 13, 2013 by KWRegan What constitutes evidence of cheating? Faye Dunaway is an Academy Award-winning actress who co-starred with the late Steve McQueen in the 1968 movie “The Thomas Crown Affair.” She plays a freelance insurance...
ACP against cheating
Dear colleagues, The ACP has been discussing the problem of computer-assisted cheating in chess for a long time. Now it is time to act. As a first step, we need to collect the voices of the chess professionals who believe...
Cheating accusation in Croatia
Bulgarian chess player strip searched after being accused of cheating in Croatian tournamentCroatian Times Organisers of an international chess tournament in Zadar, Croatia, strip searched an unranked Bulgarian chess player after he easily beat their local grand master. Borislav...
Players Whose Moves Most Matched Computers
Chess Players Whose Moves Most Matched ComputersPublished: March 19, 2012 Source: New York Times As part of his research into modeling how people play chess, Kenneth W. Regan has analyzed the performances of thousands of players over the last...
Online Chess Lessons | Computer Chess Cheating: Rybka’s Vasik Rajlich Interview
By Chess Tutor William Stewart Original Article on Chess Cheating available here. The International Computer Games Association (ICGA) released a public statement on June 28, 2011 declaring the ultra-strong computer chess program Rybka guilty of plagiarism, specifically alleging that...
Four world championship titles stripped
Computer chess champ stripped of its four titlesBy Claire CourchaneThe Washington Times9:40 p.m., Thursday, June 30, 2011 Yet another world champion has been brought low for suspected use of a banned performance-enhancing substance. Rybka, the chess-playing computer program that...
Cheating at chess has long, dark history
Players caught ‘trying ah ting’ Cheating at chess has long, dark history Published: Thu, 2011-06-16 23:10 Carl Jacobs In Trini parlance, Milan Matulovic was obviously “trying ah ting.” At the Sousse Interzonal chess tournament in 1967, the Yugoslav Grandmaster...
Cheating Herzen
Original Article – Cheating HerzenBy Mig Greengard from chessninja.com – Response by Chess Coach NM William Stewart Oh those Germans. They can’t let the French one-up them on anything, not even chess cheating. At the German championship last week,...